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"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy roman Empire was neither holy, nor roman, nor an empire." »Voltaire
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"republic. I like the sound of the word" »John Wayne
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"I am the roman Emperor, and am above grammar." »Emperor Sigismund
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"The Holy roman Empire was neither holy, nor roman nor an Empire." »Voltaire
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"In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous." »Robert G. Ingersoll
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"Would that the roman people had a single neck to cut off their head." »Caligula
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"Would that the roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head]." »Caligula (Gaius Caesar), From Suetonius
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"Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal." »William Allen White
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"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men." »Gerald R. Ford
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"The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy." »Friedrich Engels
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"It was a grand trait of the old roman that with him one and the same word meant both honor and honesty." »Advance
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"Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using roman numerals." »Henry Spencer
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"The hopes of the republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power." »Benjamin Franklin
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"The Islamic republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan. in response to George W. Bush's assertion of Iran as part of an axis of evil" »Ayatullah Khamenei
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"I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. (On first friendly overture by People's republic of China)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the republic is destroyed." »Abraham Lincoln
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"The true republic men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less." »Franklin P. Adams
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"The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher, as equally false and by the magistrate, as equally useful." »Edward Gibbon
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"The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." »Jack Kerouac
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"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." »Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"
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"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." »Jack Kerouac
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"It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a roman triumph." »Joseph Addison
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"A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed." »Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln
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"When you are at Rome live in the roman style when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere." »Saint Ambrose
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"When you are at Rome live in the roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere." »Saint Ambrose, Taylor
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"The knowledge, wealth, and development gaps among nations is reducing and the reign of superpowers is shortening. Just look at the history of the roman, Islamic, Russian and British empires, the newer the power the shorter the reign. In the economic and business worlds the same power cycles apply. Ford, IBM, Nokia and other companies all lost their leadership position to newer companies." »Med Jones
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